Draft 1: Tsuyoshi Fujita

Josh Bennett

On or off the dance floor, there's no stopping Tsuyoshi "Mr. Rolly" Fujita. The celebrated Invitationalist first rose to the public eye as the Finalist at Pro Tour - Tokyo, the first Japanese player to make a Pro Tour Top 8. In the months that followed, he was dogged by a string of poor finishes, dismissed as a one-hit wonder. He's since pulled himself back together, evidenced by his fourteenth place finish at Pro Tour - Osaka. He hopes his good fortune will continue this weekend.

On his left, Liang had been taking all the red that Fujita had ignored, supplementing it with what green he could find. On the other side, Zhou had opened Iridescent Angel and never looked back, drafting blue-white even though the card quality was not all the way there. So Fujita was in a bit of a tough spot. For the next pack he'd face a shortage of green, and in Torment he'd have his best blue stripped.

Fanning out the next pack he sighed audibly. There were no green cards. The only blue card was Psionic Gift. He looked at Millikin, but chose Aven Flock instead. Assuming the worst, he was pleasantly surprised when he was shipped Cephalid Broker. He had to double-check to make sure it was the real deal.

Spread out, the deck's weaknesses were laid bare. No creatures before three mana. Few way to break out of a stall. And three colors on top of that. Fujita did what he could, but admitted that 0-3 was an all-too real possiblity with this pile.